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September 10, 2015
The Nightshade Escape – Short Story
Very short and very not sweet story in today’s re-blog………
Originally posted on Tribalmystic stories:
Picture by Barbara W. Beacham.
Flash Fiction Challenge
Mondays Finish the Storyis a flash fiction challenge by Barbara W. Beacham. The story requires 100-150 words. Here is my short story for this week’s prompt based on the first sentence below and the picture.
The Nightshade Escape JK.Leahy Short Story
“The team employed the use of Nightshade to get the information they w...
September 9, 2015
Writing Knowledge from Down Under…
I wonder if there are a few readers who saw the title of this post and thought, “Oh, wow! Alex is going to talk about getting help for our writing from thesubconscious.”
Image of the Capital of Victoria courtesy of Greg Bains ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/bphotos-61699
Actually, I’m not gonna do that…
But, really-actually, I’ve done that before here and will probably do it again.
And, really-truly-actually, one of the links in this post is to an article that does get close to the s...
September 8, 2015
Must READ! Brainstorming IDEAS!
Another Re-Blog from one of my favorite Publishers :-)
Originally posted on FastPencil.com Self-Publishing Blog:
marcos c. / Foter / CC BY-NC Sharing some brainstorming insights! Have you ever experienced writer’s block and can’t brainstorm? Well…FastPencil has, that’s why we created an entire web application specifically for writers. Our writing tool has features such as, project discussions, comments/edits, collaborators and your own personal notes to help you brainsto...
September 7, 2015
International Literacy Day & a MOOC about How to Write Fiction
Yes, the 8th of September isUnited Nations Literacy Day with the theme this year being “Literacy and Sustainable Societies”.
Image Courtesy of Ove Topfer ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/topfer-56920
From the UN site:
“Literacy skills are the prerequisite for the learning of a broader set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, required for creating sustainable societies. At the same time, progress in areas of sustainable development, such as health and agriculture, serves as an e...
September 6, 2015
BookCrossing: Traveling Books Across the World
Today’s Re-Blog reminds me of a post I did 4 years ago :-)
Originally posted on The Hudsucker:
“I’m free! I’m not lost!”
The words catch my eye immediately. I’m in the middle of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market on a bustling Wednesday at lunch time, crowds of people hurrying past me in every direction. No one else’s eyes fall on the red hardcover book with the yellow sticky note on the cover, proudly proclaiming the above words. The only one to notice is me.
Curious, I pick u...
September 5, 2015
Can Literature Heal?
Fascinating Re-Blog today…
Exploring the critical value of Literature via Nature, Connection, and Authenticity…
Originally posted on M.C. Tuggle, Writer:
“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
Ezra Pound
Signs of atrophy and decay are inescapable these days. The coarseness of mass entertainment, the malignancy of political discourse, the creeping alienation affecting young and old alike which swells up and all too often releases itself in viol...
September 4, 2015
How in the World Can We Get Them to Read More !?
I scan the news (filtered by Google) every day (plus, I use two other sources of aggregated article links) to find the information for my Monday, Wednesday, and Friday posts.
Image Courtesy of tim & annette ~ http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/mexikids-29583
The WordPress “Reader” gives me links to others’ posts that I re-blog the remaining days of the week.
So…
I’m looking at quite a few headlines and abbreviated blurbs every day…
One of the recurrent topics is how to get various groups...
September 3, 2015
Marilynne Robinson on Writing and Discipline
There are many Myths about what writers “Should” do…
Today’s re-blog begins with one of them being shattered………
Originally posted on Longreads Blog:
INTERVIEWER
Do you keep to a schedule?
ROBINSON
I really am incapable of discipline. I write when something makes a strong claim on me. When I don’t feel like writing, I absolutely don’t feel like writing. I tried that work ethic thing a couple of times—I can’t say I exhausted its possibilities—but if there’s not something on...
September 2, 2015
Top 20 Posts and Pages for Readers, Writers, and Publishers
I should modify the title of this post with the words, “during the lifetime of this blog”.
I can’t even imagine the top 20 posts and pages for the whole blogosphere…
This blogI can track.
Though, the meaningfulness of my Top 20 is not easy to know…
Who are the people who’ve visited this blog—are they all somewhat alike—do they all have more than one thing in common—could they be called a distinguishable group?
I may never know, though they have tended to pick certain posts and pages over othe...
September 1, 2015
Conserving Your Creative Energy
Most of us, too often, forget the common-sense, imperative guidelines of sane living…
Today’s Re-Blog is a special reminder for all creative folks………
Originally posted on Live to Write - Write to Live:
Just. Can’t. Move. Another. Step.
I’m calling a time-out.
At least I wish I could, because sometimes life gets a little too crazy, and you just want to pull the emergency stop cord and bring the whole shebang...
